Top 75 labor and employment attorneys of 2011
With two cases this year - AT&T v. Concepcion and Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. - the U.S. Supreme Court appears to have a...
A series of tough, hotly contested Bay Area emissions standards that legal observers say may be adopted by other California lo...
U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
The reason behind the 9th Circuit's high reversal rate
The 9th Circuit's high reversal rate by the U.S. Supreme Court undermines the judicial system.
The state Constitution's right to privacy could provide protection for job seekers who smoke. By D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Va...
During its annual planning meeting in San Diego last Friday and Saturday, the Committee of Bar Examiners tabled a proposal to ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Serial killer skirts death penalty -- for now
By John Roemer
Death is on hold for a serial killer, a 9th Circuit panel ruled Monday in concluding that a federal judge should have held a c...
Orange County’s Roman Catholic diocese will put in a bid to purchase the Crystal Cathedral, according to a bankruptcy attorney...
A defense lawyer's drinking problem and failure to investigate his client's childhood sexual abuse was not enough to convince ...
Insurance
Third-party bad faith: claims for breach of the duty to settle
By Seena Nikravann
When should an insurer accept an offer to settle in a third party lawsuit? By Marc Feldman of Luce Forward Hamilton & Scri...
In another sign of the legal job drought, more than 500 lawyers, many of them overqualified, recently responded to a job posti...
Central and Southern California community groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
A survey last week showed as much as a 20 percent increase in malpractice claims this year, and legal ethics experts say the e...
Comcast Cable Communications LLC discriminated against Santa Monica-based Tennis Channel Inc. by inhibiting the network’s abil...
A federal judge denied a motion for class certification Monday in what remains of a consolidated lawsuit against Silicon Valle...
Military Law
Government Must Make Statement on 'Don't Ask' Appeal
By Jason W. Armstrong
Shortly after lifting a stay of a trial judge's ruling ordering the U.S. to stop enforcing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," an appeals...
Attacks on Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.'s standing to initiate foreclosures or assign interests end in Califo...
Infineon Technologies has settled a long-running securities class action with shareholders, agreeing to pay $6.2 million to re...
Award-winning federal prosecutor Winston Y. Chan, who recently scored convictions of a Mafia boss and an investment banking ex...
Broad changes to National Labor Relations Board rules that would expedite union elections at workplaces, which seem all but ce...
The complaint filed Monday against talent agency CAA accuses the agents of skimming contingency compensation away from their c...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
General Counsel for Venrock Palo Alto ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health Care Reform in California: What Does It Mean for Our Clients?
By Genevieve Knollen
By focusing on two basic concepts contained within the health care reform law, practitioners can cut through the controversy a...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that would increase the small claims court jurisdictional limit from $7,500 to $10,000. ...
Lisa Greer Quateman, founder and managing partner of Los Angeles boutique Quateman LLP, has teamed up with Polsinelli Shughart...
Wisconsin-based S.C. Johnson & Son will remove the "Greenlist" label from its Windex bottles as part of a settlement reac...
The co-owner of two Culver City-based health care companies was convicted by a federal jury in the Central District of Califor...
Even as the Legislature moves forward with plans to revamp the State Bar, five lawyers have been elected to three-year terms o...